Suspect in rural Larimer County mail thefts arrested

A tip from the public has led to the arrest of a man accused of a series of mail thefts in the Bellvue, Rist Canyon and Poudre Canyon areas of Larimer County.

According to a press release from the Larimer County Sheriff's Office, investigators acted on a tip received through the Jackson County Sheriff's Office and positively identified 47-year-old Harry Edwin Jenkins Jr., of Cowdrey in Jackson County, as the suspect in the mail thefts. Investigators were assisted in the investigation by the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, the Laramie, Wyoming Police Department and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

In January, the sheriff's office asked for the public's help in providing information on a series of mail thefts where the suspect stole mail and used financial information to committee thefts throughout Northern Colorado and Wyoming.

Jenkins was charged with five counts of identity theft, a class 4 felony, one count of forgery, a class 5 felony, and one county of theft, a class 1 misdemeanor.

He was booked into Larimer County Jail on Feb. 6 and released on $10,000 bond.